The Department of Energy (DOE) has snubbed hydrogen as a form of innovative energy storage that the entire Philippine power supply chain can prospectively lean on for efficient and reliable operations into the future and despite the fact that this storage technology is already the center of attention of whip-smart energy planners and project-developers worldwide.
Players in the energy story business sounded off their big disappointment following the release of the DOE draft Circular prescribing policies on the investment rollout of energy storage systems (ESS) in the domestic energy sector.
The ESS definition set forth by the DOE proposed Circular primarily classified energy storage technologies as: battery energy storage system (BESS), compressed air energy storage (CAES); flywheel energy storage or FES; and pumped storage hydropower or PSH.
The propounded DOE policy stipulated…